Originally posted by Skeptic
It is far more rational to believe that a supernatural poofing of fully formed life could never happen.
Exactly my point. Christians don't believe that everything just "supernaturally poofed into existence" with no help... that could never happen. Thanks for declaring Christians rational. I knew you'd come around to seeing it my way!
Google "Bible contradictions" and carefully read through a half dozen of the first sites listed. No contradictions? :chuckle:
I must say, for someone who thinks they are intelligent, you've reached an all time low here... You read about 143 double verses, then deceide that the whole Bible is contridictory because those verses don't add up? Man, that's lame! In that case, you're absolutely right; the Bible is full of contridictions! I found one myself in Psalms 14:1 and 53:1, which says "There is no God". And to think I've been wasting all these years studying about Him... Hmmm.. Thanks for showing me the light Skeptic! :thumb:
In all seriousness, I know you are not stupid. Take the whole Bible into context and you just might learn something...
Why believe in something for which there is no evidence?
You want evidence? Have you ever felt love?
Are you afraid of death... afraid of ceasing to exist?
No.
Do you think there is some kind of "soul" entity inside you, made of some special spiritual stuff, that is going to magically enter some eternal dimension called Heaven, and stare at some supernatural Creator forever in some kind of holy bliss? :chuckle:
Yes.
Life derived from a series of complex chemical processes...
Hold up; stop right there. Complex chemical processes? But there wasn't anything complex about the early stages of evolution; just a bunch of gases. You can't take two toothpicks and make a skyscraper out of them...
How did something so simple become extremely complex and diversified, without having the hindrance of entropy? Have you ever witnessed your house magically clean itself? Have you ever witnessed anything on this planet go from simplicity of a few materials to something gigantically complex without the help of any outside force or energy? Have you witnessed a rusty beat up classic car transform itself into a brand new vehicle? I don't think so. It's illogical. Don't be so silly. Evolution could have never happened. Death teaches us that. You'll learn one day...
You grossly underestimate what can result from complex chemical processes in changing ecologies over three billion years.
The problem is, there was no way complex chemical processes could occur with the simplicity the universe had to offer. To take gases and create what we have today is impossible, unless there was an outside force that helped in designing it and molding life into what it is today.
How do you know "life is too complex."
Because we exist. We have conciousness. We experience love. If you have kids, everytime you look at them, do you really think to yourself that they were an accident? Do you have no feelings for them, or anyone that you love? Of course you do. Evolution could not make that. There is no way in this universe that conciousness can arrive from no where.
If by the word "accident" (or "random") you mean simply something similar to shaking up a bunch of chemicals in a flask and pouring it out on a table and expecting a living cell to result, then your definition is very simplistic and does not apply to a scientific approach to the origin and evolution of life.
When it's all boiled down, that is exactly what evolution teaches.
